WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today launched an online portal to help contracting officers, contractors and subcontractors to provide required notices of federal construction contracts and subcontract awards.

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled unanimously on Aug. 22, 2022, that the operator of a Lake County, Minnesota, iron ore mine flagrantly violated the federal Mine Safety and Health Act when it directed miners to work on an elevated walkway known to be unsafe for more than a year.

ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration signed a strategic partnership with Balfour Beatty Construction to promote worker safety and health during construction of the 1018 West Peachtree Project in Atlanta.

In the week ending August 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 243,000, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised down by 5,000 from 250,000 to 245,000. The 4-week moving average was 247,000, an increase of 1,500 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised down by 1,250 from 246,750 to 245,500.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $3.4 million in funding to help recruit, train and retain more women in quality pre-apprenticeship and Registered Apprenticeship programs, as well as nontraditional occupations.

DUETTE, FL – A federal workplace safety investigation has found a 35-year-old farmworker died from heat illness on a Duette farm in the early evening of April 5, 2022. It was only his second day on the job.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $50 million in Apprenticeship Building America grant funding for Registered Apprenticeship hubs – organizations that help employers design, develop and deliver programs – and support the establishment, scaling and expansion of Registered Apprenticeship programs in new and fast-growing industries and occupations.

ATLANTA - An ongoing federal initiative to ensure that Southeast employers comply with federal laws regarding the employment of temporary nonimmigrant workers with H-2B guest visas has made significant progress in holding violators accountable for infringing on workers’ rights.

SUAMICO, WI – On a chilly March morning, a federal workplace safety inspector observed five roofers atop a Wrightstown residence, working at heights up to 23 feet without required fall protection. The inspector later found the fall protection equipment piled in a bucket on the ground next to a work truck.   

AKRON, OH – A Dundee contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations has added an additional $228,126 in fines to $108,318 in unpaid penalties with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for again exposing workers to potential deadly fall hazards, this time at an Akron job site.

Employer name:                   IV Waste LLC

Investigation site:                730 South Pierce St.                                                                                     

                                                       New Orleans, LA 70119

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of nearly $26 million in grant funding to improve how unemployment insurance benefits are delivered to people facing obstacles to access in California, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada and West Virginia.

SALT LAKE CITY – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $602,745, in overtime back wages for 127 employees of a Woods Cross tile installation company that denied them their full wages and benefits.

TAMPA, FL – A federal court has ordered Tampa Electric Co. to implement a safety compliance plan audited by an independent third party, pay a $500,000 penalty and be subject to 36 months of probation after Tampa Electric pleaded guilty to willfully violating an OSHA standard, which caused five worker fatalities in 2017 at the Big Bend River Station electrical power plant in Apollo Beach. The Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida prosecuted the case.

SABINE PASS, TX – A federal workplace investigation has found two companies’ failures to follow required safety standards endangered the lives of nine workers who found themselves trapped – nearly 30 stories high – atop a burning jack-up drilling platform decommissioned in the Anchorage Basin near a Sabine Pass shipyard.

SALT LAKE CITY - Una investigación del Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. recuperó $602,745 en salarios atrasados para 127 empleados de una empresa de instalación de baldosas de Woods Cross que les negaba sus salarios completos y sus beneficios.

Employer:                              Always Reliable Management Services Inc.

Investigation site:                  1815 W. 15th St.

                                                 Panama City, FL 32401

NORTH BARRINGTON, IL – A Roselle contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations who currently owes more than $390,000 in penalties, added an additional $303,105 in proposed fines for once again exposing workers to potential deadly fall hazards at a North Barrington job site.

ALEXANDRIA, VA – The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prohibit a federal contractor and its owners from retaliating against former and current employees who cooperate with an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with nine new partners who have agreed to support the agency’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. With these additions, VETS has recruited 33 partners to support the pilot.